charaaa / africawatermap

A map of Africa's access to water and sanitation

###Africa Watermap

This interactive map commissioned by Wateraid for Africa Water week has been released for use by other organisations or individuals who may use it as a starting point for their own maps. The map itself is fully responsive and uses d3js for svg image generation in javascript. We would appreciate if you could remove all branding from your project before publishing it.

Local Development Server

Run the following commands in a terminal

cd path/to/d3js/
python -m SimpleHTTPServer 8008

And then you view the page at http://localhost:8008/

Guide to Project Directory Layout

The main code we're using is in the d3js/ directory.

The map data we're using, along with a script to generate the json files we need is in the mapdata/ directory.

An early implementation using the jvectormap library is in the jvectormap/ directory.

Running the map script

Only required for generating map data, not for running the web server

That requires the ogr2ogr and topojson commands. The ogr2ogr command can be installed by running:

sudo apt-get install gdal-bin

The topojson command can be installed by running

sudo npm install topojson -g

npm is part of node - on Ubuntu 14.04 you just install the nodejs package, or see this guide for older versions of Ubuntu